domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

akost

#!/bin/bash

# Recursive file convertion windows-1251 --> utf-8
# Place this file in the root of your site, add execute permission and run
# Converts *.php, *.html, *.css, *.js files.
# To add file type by extension, e.g. *.cgi, add '-o -name "*.cgi"' to the find command

find ./ -name "*.php" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "*.css" -o -name "*.js"  -type f |
while read file
do